The Linguistics Encyclopedia

As the present encyclopedia shows, linguistics today encompasses a wide range of component disciplines and associated activities, all of which use the name to announce their commitment to the serious study of language and languages. This (relatively recent) expansion of linguistics means we need to focus on the core of the subject and how it emerged from its nineteenth-century origins as ‘the science of language’, a phrase which is still taken as a gloss on modern linguistics though not all linguists find it equally congenial. Get the book here.

Forbidden Words

Many words and expressions are viewed as ‘taboo’, such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are ‘sweet talking’, ‘straight talking’ or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language playfully and figuratively in

Modernism

Modernism constitutes one of the most prominent fields of literary studies today. It is, however, a field that stands in a very ambiguous relationship to the present literary and cultural situation. Perhaps this is indeed one reason for the current vitality of modernist studies that can be observed on both sides of the Atlantic. Scholars and critics are seeking to draw a balance sheet with modernism, but there is still a great deal of basic disagreement about how to “settle” it as a historical category.

One may even ask: has modernism come to an end? There are certainly those who do not hesitate to answer this question affirmatively,

Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax

Computational approaches to morphology and syntax are generally concerned with formal devices, such as grammars and stochastic models, and algorithms, such as tagging or parsing. They can range from primarily theoretical work, looking at, say, the computational complexity of algorithms for using a certain class of grammars, to mainly applied work, such as establishing best practices for statistical language modeling in the context of automatic speech recognition. Our intention in this volume is to provide a critical overview of the key computational issues in these domains along with some (though certainly not all) of the most effective approaches taken to address these issues. Some approaches have been known for many decades; others continue to be actively researched. Download it here.

Language Death

The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. A leading commentator and popular writer on language issues, David Crystal asks the

Language Interrupted

The concept elicits little objection when observed in passing. Dalby (1998, 391) hardly considers it a venturesome statement that “a lingua franca needs to be easy to grasp, and Malay has a more approachable structure than its relatives.” When Trudgill (1996, 8–9) proposes that Alpine Romansch and Faroese have accreted unusual and complex sounds because as isolated languages, they have rarely been subjected to adults’ diminished capacity for imitating unfamiliar phonetic segments, the argument is not received as controversial.

Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages

If we trace the history of linguistics as a science, from the realms of mere speculation as recently as the eighteenth century to its status as a relatively exact science, with many distinct specialisations, at the beginning of the twenty-first, and compare that history with the history of demographic, political and economic change across the globe over the same brief period in the span of man’s existence as a speaking animal, then it begins to become clear why the concept of endangerment’ is so new to the realms of linguistics.

Dictionary of Slang

The dictionary of slang and unconventional words. Sometimes we found the difficult words to understand. It so hard to get the clear understanding about the words. This dictionary provide us with the meaning of slang words. Read more here.

A Dictionary of Linguistics

This is the dictionary of the linguistics and phonetics term. You will need this if you are a university students or a high motivated learner in English. So read more here.

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics

In different societies and different communities, people speak differently. These differences in ways of speaking are profound and systematic. These differences reflect different values, or at least different hierarchies of values. Different ways of speaking, different communicative styles, can be explained and made sense of, in terms of independently established different cultural values and cultural priorities. Click here for full presentation.

Onomatopoeia Words

Many English words come from the sound. This sound can represent a meaning. It's called onomatopoeia words. Here is the list of onomatopoeia words. You can find other words by yourself in our daily activities. Click here to download the full article.

THE PHONOLOGY OF NASALIZED VERBAL IN SUNDANESE LANGUAGE

By Iyan Hayani, M.Pd Supervised by Prof. Abdul Wahab, Ph.D

INTRODUCTION

Background

The development of every language, especially a foreign language has been influencing the usage of mother tongue language. As we have already known that every language has its own rules of language.

Indonesia has kinds of languages. Each province or region has their own language. But, Indonesian people have a national language i.e. Indonesian language. One of languages is Sundanese language. This language spread in West Java and Banten province. Then, every area has different meaning for some words. For example: pantog or mantog, (means leave/go away in Bandung but means hit one's head in Banten).

In Sundanese language, there are also rules of the usage of the language. The rules cover all grammatical and phonological terms. This paper tries to explain the phonology of the nasalized verbal in Sundanese language. From the root, we can compose a verbal by using nasalization.

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Socio pragmatics

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Politeness strategies are developed in order to save the hearers' "face." Face Threatening Acts (FTA's) are acts that infringe on the hearers' need to maintain his/her self esteem, and be respected. Politeness strategies are developed for the main purpose of dealing with these FTA's.